Entrance to Apple's Shanghai Store
The store will join Beijing’s Sanlitun Lu shop [image], which opened back around this time of year in 2008 … hmmm… Summer 2008/Beijing Olympics, Summer 2010/Shanghai Expo… maybe Guangzhou can expect their own shop sometime in November?
Dying for an iPad, but feeling a bit guilty that you’d be supporting a company that drives their employees to suicide? Maybe you just don’t have the better part of a grand to drop on a new toy? Whatever your reasoning, there’s a new shanzhai iPad to the rescue. A Japanese news report announced the other day that a company down in Shenzhen has brought China’s first iPad clone to the market — called, what else, the iPed (aka aPad).
Priced at around 1/5th the cost of its genuine Apple cousin, it’s surely going to raise more than a few iBrows around the offices in Cupertino. Making that price even sweeter is that it’s not even running some craptastic domestic Chinese OS — rather, it’s loaded with none other than Google’s iPhone-killing Android OS.
The Chinese government notoriously dislikes any organisation, particularly a foreign one, communicating directly to its people – so it’s little wonder that the story of Google in China has been one of jumping through fiery hoops. This week Google has been under attack in China over internet pornography, especially with regards its ‘search suggestions’ drop-down [...]
It’s the Irresistible Force meets the Immovable Object. Apple, the Californian electronics firm, and China Mobile, the state-owned telecommunications giant, have been locked in a slow, secretive, yet embittered year-long struggle to release and control Apple’s iPhone in mainland China. By “control” I refer to both revenue from user contracts/subscriptions, as well as to the [...]
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